- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:11:56 +0100
- To: "'Gunnar Bittersmann'" <gunnar@bittersmann.de>
- Cc: <www-international@w3.org>
> From: www-international-request@w3.org [mailto:www-international- > request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Gunnar Bittersmann > Sent: 16 August 2010 15:07 > To: www-international@w3.org > Subject: Re: For review: 6 new and 2 updated articles about character > encoding > > Picking some more nits in “Using character escapes in markup and CSS”: > > > 3) http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa- > escapes.en.php#cssescapes > > > > Proposal: Add the advice to always close NCRs in CSS with a trailing space. > > If so, make '.\E9 motion' the first example, followed by '.\E9motion' > and '.\0000E9motion'. > > Stick to the same word, either "émotion" or "édition". > > > http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-escapes.en.php#not > > Above the examples in Czech it says: > “It is almost always preferable to use an encoding that allows you to > represent characters in their normal form, rather than using character > entity references or NCRs.” > > Just below the examples in Czech it says: > “It is much better to use an encoding that allows you to represent the > characters in their normal form.” > > This is a unnecessary duplication of content, IMHO. Changed to: As we said before, use characters rather than escapes for ordinary text. > > > (The note about NBSP looking like a space but preventing a line wrap > also appers twice, but in places far away from each other.) > > > Further down: > “If you use HTML-defined character entity references (such as á) > to represent characters in XHTML, you should take care any time your > content is processed using XML tools, or converted to XML.” > > Hm, “converted to XML” might sound as if XHTML was not XML. Changed to: any time your content is processed using XML parsers or other tools. > > > http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-escapes.en.php#use > > “Note, however, that, although it is part of the XML language, ' is > not defined in HTML 4.01. For this reason the XHTML specification > recommends instead the use of ' if text may be passed to an HTML > user agent. In addition, some browsers do not support ' in HTML.” > > “In addition”? It seems to be out of place to me since it is the same > reason as previously mentioned. How about: > > Note, however, that, although it is part of the XML language, ' is > not defined in HTML 4.01. For this reason the XHTML specification > recommends instead the use of ' if text may be passed to an HTML > user agent. Some browsers do not support ' in HTML. Changed to: Note, however, that, although it is part of the XML language, ' is not defined in HTML 4.01 and some browsers do not support ' in HTML. For this reason the XHTML specification recommends instead the use of ' if text may be passed to an HTML browser. > > > Typography: > > Don’t use hyphens for dashes, but U+2013 en dash. It should be safe to > replace any occurence of " - " with " – " (space, en dash, space). Done. RI
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